BREAKING: Man who leaked Trump’s tax returns gets MAXIMUM sentence.
The man who leaked Trump’s tax returns to the New York Times and ProPublica got the maximum sentence he could get from a judge today, despite the man’s attorney’s asking for a lighter sentence.
According to Politico, Charles Littlejohn will spend the next five years behind bars.
Here’s more:
- A former IRS consultant was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns as well as the filings of thousands of other wealthy people to the news media.
A district court judge on Monday agreed with the Justice Department that Charles Littlejohn, 38, deserved the maximum statutory sentence for what she called “egregious” crimes.
Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden nominee to the bench, focused on Littlejohn’s decision to release Trump’s filings, which Reyes called “an attack on our constitutional democracy.”
“When you target the sitting president of the United States, you’re targeting the office and when you’re targeting the office of the president of the United States, you’re targeting democracy — you’re targeting our constitutional system of government.”
Noting that Trump was under no legal obligation to release his filings and likening the case to the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, Reyes said: “It cannot be open season on our elected officials — it just can’t.”
Littlejohn’s lawyers had asked for leniency in the form of a sentence of between 12 and 18 months, saying that, at the time, he believed the public had the right to know how much Trump and the others paid in taxes.
He has since come to regret leaking the information, his representatives told the court. -
I’m honestly surprised the DOJ asked for the maximum sentence and the judge gave it to him. But I’m glad because it was egregious and he deserves every bit of it.
But guess who isn’t happy about it? The benefactors of his crime…
- Littlejohn leaked the information to The New York Times and ProPublica, both of which protested the sentence.
The Times, which received Trump’s returns, called the judge’s decision “harsh” and “deeply troubling.”
“The Times’s reporting on this topic played an important role in helping the public understand the financial ties and tax strategies of a sitting president —information that has long been seen as central to the knowledge that voters should have about the leader of our government,” said spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha.
ProPublica spokeswoman Alexis Stephens said: “Whistleblowers are often the lifeblood of investigative journalism” and “they deserve protection not prosecution.” -
They treat him like he’s a ‘whistleblower’? That’s complete garbage because this was a CRIME. The man leaked Trump’s private tax returns, which are NOT the business of the American public. It didn’t belong to the government, it belonged to Trump and only he had the right to release it.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-man-who-leaked-trumps-tax-returns-gets-maximum-sentence/
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